CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS (1898-1963),
distinguished professor of English literature at England's Cambridge University.... Dr.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones said, "Because C.S. Lewis was essentially a philosopher, his view
of salvation was defective in two key respects: (1) Lewis believed and taught one could
reason oneself into Christianity, and (2) he was an opponent of the substitutionary and
penal theory of the Atonement."
More on C. S. Lewis will be posted shortly.
OSWALD CHAMBERS (1874-1917) was born in
Aberdeen, Scotland. From 1906 to 1907 he engaged in a round-the-world preaching tour among
Methodist and Holiness groups.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER did not die for his
faith in Christ, but rather for his participation in one of the plots to assassinate
Adolph Hitler. Find out what else he believed.
HANNAH WHITALL SMITH
(1832-1911) is best
known for her classic, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, first published in
1875. Hannah's husband, J. Pearsall Smith wrote, Holiness By Faith, a
holiness/perfectionistic treatment of sanctification. The Smith's roots in Quakerism
brought them to a tragic end.
HANNAH HURNARD, author, lecturer, and
former missionary to Palestine, is best known for her book Hind's Feet On High Places,
an allegory of a Christian's spiritual pilgrimage towards true freedom in the Lord Jesus
Christ. However, in her later Eagle's Wings, she reveals her embrace of a
combination of Christian Science, Eastern pantheism, and other assorted cultic teachings.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
is read and quoted today,
all too often by evangelicals; despite the fact that he explicitly denied the deity of the
Lord Jesus Christ. "I do not think William Barclay was a Christian."
Harold Lindsell.
J. B. PHILLIPS, neo-orthodox, who did not
hold to verbal inspiration of the Scriptures.